Information sought on two home-invasion robberies

PORT ORCHARD - Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating two home-invasion robberies that occurred at opposite ends of the county Thursday.

No one was seriously injured in either incident, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

The first incident occurred at about 2 a.m. Thursday on the 11000 of Bethel Burley Road in South Kitsap.

A woman told investigators that she heard someone pounding on the door of her house. Thinking it was a friend, she opened the door.

Two men shoved their way inside, pushed the woman to the floor and held her down with a booted foot. Because it was dark in the house, the woman wasn’t able to provide much of a description of the suspects. She told investigators that one man was about 6-feet tall and the other was shorter with a medium build. Both had covered their faces.

Nothing appeared to have been taken from the home.

The second incident occurred at about 11:30 p.m. on Tasia Lane in North Kitsap. Three people in a house there told investigators that three men, one of them armed with a handgun, forced their way into the house.

All three people who had been inside the house were pepper-sprayed and one was pistol-whipped. Money and electronics were stolen.

All the three suspects were white men. One was described as about 6-foot-2 and stocky, wearing a green coat and a green ski mask; another was about 5-foot-10 and skinny, wearing a black sweatshirt and a black ski mask; and the third was 5-foot-5, wearing a clown mask and gray coat.

In both incidents, the suspects fled on foot and are believed to have had a vehicle positioned nearby.

Anyone with information about the crimes is asked to call Detective Jerry Swayze at 337-4479.